Re: (ITS#3706) [enhancement] back-ldap/back-meta don't handle T-F filters

[ando@sys-net.it]

Howard Chu wrote:

> Do you suggest reconstructing the filter string (thus duplicating all 
> of the work of filter2bv)? It seems to me it would be better to just 
> fix filter2bv to use the correct notation here.

In back-meta and in the rwm overlay I'm reconstructing the filter abyway 
because I need to rewrite DN-valued attributes and so.  I've already 
fixed back-meta so that it can be instructed whether any of the targets 
support absoluteFilters, or even to detect it at startup.  For 
back-ldap, what I intend to do is to simply do a comparison with the 
leading string "(?=" and, in case, use the appropriate filter.  The 
point, again, is between using the absoluteFilter form or a workaround 
based on the upportedFeatures of the remote server.

p.



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